MANILA: A small but violent al Qaeda-linked Islamist group in the Philippines has demanded a billion pesos (RM91mil) each for three men and a woman captured at a beach resort in September, one of the victims said in a video.
The men, two Canadians and a Norwegian, and the Filipino woman were shown in a video clip posted on Twitter crouching on the ground with masked men wielding machetes standing over them and threatening to kill them.
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